Female Draenei Model

Following in quick succession from the Tauren Male Model that we saw yesterday, Blizzard has posted an in-progress Artcraft of the Female Draenei. It's important to note that this particular model is not finished. Specifically, she hasn't been posed or animated, so her posture may look a little strange.

Blizzard

Hello again! I’m Senior Art Director Chris Robinson, and today we wanted to give you a super quick look at our current progress with the new female Draenei.

After the April Fools’ joke we wanted to ensure you weren’t waiting too long to see where we’re at with her actual character model update. Keep in mind that she’s still in-progress, and doesn’t have any animation to pose her body or face.

Animation is a big factor for the female Draenei specifically, so it’s important to keep it in mind when comparing the two. The original female Draenei has some fairly extreme posing that happens when she’s animated. If you were to see the static model of the original without any posing you’d see that it looks very similar to the new one. With her pose applied her shoulders stretch backward, her pelvis rotates forward, and her chin lowers—causing her head to angle downwards. The curvature in her lower back, and why the head shape looks slightly different, are also due to the new model not having the same posing applied yet. She also looks a lot taller! Ultimately all of those things will be addressed when we animate the new model, they just don’t take place until she’s rigged and sent on to the animation team.

We hope you enjoyed this super quick look at where we’re at right now, and we’ll continuing sharing more in-progress art as we go forward. The next article in the Artcraft series we’re planning is a look at the creation of the Spires of Arak, a new zone coming in Warlords of Draenor. Thanks for stopping by!

Senior Character Artist Joe Keller did the majority of the work on this revamp, with direction from our Lead Character Artist Tyson Murphy (@tysmurph), and myself (@artofcgrobinson).

Comments

Comment by Adamsm

on 2014-04-08T23:22:22-05:00

Does no one notice anything wrong with the fact that nearly all female models in the game look like they're about 20, and all male models look like they're about 50? This doesn't seem off or wrong to anyone? It's not like by now people aren't aware that a large portion of the player base is female, shouldn't that have even the tiniest bearing on the sort of fan service they provide? Shouldn't they equalize the amount of fan service per gender of character at least a tiny bit? We female players get nothing to look at.

Well yeah, males don't matter =P

Comment by ChetSteadman

on 2014-04-08T23:46:35-05:00

They nerfed boob size. :PDowngraded to a C-cup.

had to appease the feminists

Comment by zomg5

on 2014-04-09T00:23:59-05:00

seems like their spine are fixed

Comment by Rankkor

on 2014-04-09T00:59:13-05:00

They nerfed boob size. :PDowngraded to a C-cup.

had to appease the feminists

did none of you read my post?

The breast size was NOT decreased. That's just a matter of perception because she's not using her default pose. Check the image I posted on the previous page to see what I mean.

(Image courtesy of a certain user in MMOC =P Whom I forgot to credit for)

Comment by artenesse

on 2014-04-09T01:33:25-05:00

Does no one notice anything wrong with the fact that nearly all female models in the game look like they're about 20, and all male models look like they're about 50? This doesn't seem off or wrong to anyone? It's not like by now people aren't aware that a large portion of the player base is female, shouldn't that have even the tiniest bearing on the sort of fan service they provide? Shouldn't they equalize the amount of fan service per gender of character at least a tiny bit? We female players get nothing to look at.

Comment by SteveZombie

"Following in quick succession from the Tauren Male Model that we saw last week"Yesterday was last week?

Fixed!

My week starts on a Tuesday, OK. I work to a Conquest Point cap-based calendar.

>_>

All is forgiven.

Comment by AngelicMew

on 2014-04-09T05:43:42-05:00

Seems like most people saw the model and then commented. So let's remind everyone that they said this is a quick preview due to they felt a bit bad for the April's Fool joke. They are still going to do some work to the Draenei female model.

At this point I'm ok with the model. I was afraid that they might botch it and the April Fools joke didn't help at all. But if they keep the model like this (except better pose and animation) it would be enough. Might look a bit out of place if you take into account how different the other models' face look after the update.

Now I just want to see the Bloodelf model... we might finally get to see what this "male" version would look like... I mean there hasn't been a real male bloodelf. :P

Comment by FrencineMPercy

on 2014-04-09T07:36:52-05:00

Everytime I see 'em, I remember the April Fool's joke... xD

Comment by belzebhu

on 2014-04-09T09:59:31-05:00

They nerfed boob size. :PDowngraded to a C-cup.

The nerfed on all females as of now and the dwarf female don't jiggle anymore :(

Comment by Iceveiled

on 2014-04-09T11:04:11-05:00

buge hoobs.

Comment by DazzleDust

on 2014-04-09T14:42:13-05:00

I love the lips so far, i hope they make them more glossy

Comment by sleepyrat

on 2014-04-09T20:01:04-05:00

I like that they changed enough that the model still looks like the characters we've come to love, but it won't look out of place with the other spiffed up models. I'm sure that blocky old nose would have looked weird next to the cute new textures that other female noses got.

I'm really worried about how the femgoats are going to look animated, though. I know people loved the old poses and animations, but quite frankly any sort of heavy plate looks really odd on female draenei. They really need to fix the way big shoulderpads sit on their shoulders, and when their animating the model would be the time to do it.

Comment by Bluecatcxl

on 2014-04-09T21:21:02-05:00

Yay, a good update for this one. =) thank you!

Comment by ArktiqStorm

on 2014-04-10T08:23:36-05:00

Iiiiiiiii don't know.....they changed the angle of the face so much it just doesn't look right anymore...

Comment by maruda

on 2014-04-10T12:04:37-05:00

I'm loving this so far <3

Comment by argentlupus

on 2014-04-10T14:55:25-05:00

Do she got a booty? Granted she did already but now it is more well defined.

Comment by MrVolare

on 2014-04-11T04:23:29-05:00

I like that they are giving a more athletic form to so many of the females that previously lacked definition, so you actually get the sense that this is an active person.

Comment by spiny64

on 2014-04-11T10:18:01-05:00

Hummm, one can understand that Draenei com from the Eredar... an advanced (and near "perfect") race. To be honest, I'm expecting to see most of the changes for F Draenei in their animations, because their appearance is already awesome. Maybe some details here and there, but the room for improvement is little... same cannot be said about other races though... I seriously hope NElfs get their hand size reduced... weapon size because of this sometimes is absurd...

Hopefully we will see more hairstyles and colors :D

Great job so far Blizz!

Comment by Xeltzea

on 2014-04-11T17:05:47-05:00

Awesome video!

Comment by ken2445

on 2014-04-12T05:19:11-05:00

Not an actual update of the model. Just pictures of maybe what they might do with it in the future. They are doing nothing with this project. I am winning my bet that they will not finish it.